UCTV programs take a closer look at the events, people and places that shaped the American experience from the history of early exploration through modern times.
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UCTV programs take a closer look at the events, people and places that shaped the American experience from the history of early exploration through modern times.
How Democratic is the US Constitution? - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas
American History (Video)
1 hour 43 minutes 30 seconds
5 years ago
How Democratic is the US Constitution? - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas
“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” As look at the history of American democracy, we begin with the nation’s founding contradiction: the dispossession of Natives, the enslavement of Africans and the exclusion of women in a new nation dedicated to the radical concept of universal human equality. Through a reading of the founding documents of the United States, ranging from the Declaration of Independence to the speeches of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Barack Obama, we consider how race, colonialism and slavery shaped the nation's founding, and how this legacy, this “original sin” of the American founding, continues to shape and distort our democracy. Series: "Public Policy and Society" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 36276]
American History (Video)
UCTV programs take a closer look at the events, people and places that shaped the American experience from the history of early exploration through modern times.
